Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies

Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies

Goran Trajkovski

Copyright: © 2006 |Pages: 319

ISBN13: 9781591407416|ISBN10: 1591407419|EISBN13: 9781591407430

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-741-6

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Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies sheds light on the status of diversity in the field of IT education. It identifies a wide range of problems that educators face on a daily basis, and gives practical, applicable solutions, mainly by showcasing successful and replicable examples.

The chapters in Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies present research and introspection on race, gender, national origin, disability and other diversity categories. The examples, success stories from retention efforts, and strategies in assessment that account for diversity, and all supplement the topics with practical examples. If an instructor is planning on infusing diversity topics into the curriculum, this book contains pertinent information on how to identify problems and face issues.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapters

Chapter 1

Dimensions of Diversity in the IT Classroom Onground and Online (pages 1-14)

Madhumita Bhattacharya, Lone Jorgensen

This chapter introduces the dimensions of diversity in a cultural context with special reference to IT education. The authors justify that globalization of education in a true sense cannot be achieved only by establishing...

Chapter 2

Dialectic Argumentation for Promoting Dialogue in IT Education: An Epistemological Framework for Considering the Social Impacts of IT (pages 15-37)

John R. Dakers

If a deep and meaningful understanding of Information Technology is to flourish, we need, as educators, to create an ethos in which students can express themselves in a risk-free environment. In order to promote higher-order thinking...

Chapter 3

Bridging the Digital Divide: A Feminist Perspective on the Project (pages 38-67)

Mary Kirk

Dale Spender compares the contemporary growth of digital information (due to computer technology) with the centuries-old growth of written information (due to the printing press), which inspired a tremendous social revolution. Today...

Chapter 4

Gender and Programming: Mixing the Abstract and the Concrete (pages 68-91)

Peter McKenna

This chapter seeks to examine a theory of gendered styles of programming which is predicated on differences in attitudes toward abstraction and black boxes. It critically explores the theoretical questions and issues raised and...

Chapter 5

Dimensions of Sustainable Diversity in IT: Applications to the IT College Major and Career Aspirations Among Underrepresented High School Students of Color (pages 92-128)

Russell Stockard, Ali Akbari, Jamshid Damooei

This chapter acknowledges that diversity issues in the IT field go beyond racial and ethnic measures to include disability and age, to name but two of the numerous possibilities, and a global playing field. While the chapter examines...

Chapter 6

Under-Representation of African American Women Pursuing Higher-Level Degrees in the Computer Science/Technology Fields (pages 129-140)

Alfreda Dudley-Sponaugle

White males have dominated the computer sciences/technology disciplines since inception. Statistical data have shown that representation of female students in the computer sciences/technology fields has been consistently lower than...

Chapter 7

Working with Students in Math, Technology, and Sciences for Success: One Faculty Member's Experience (pages 141-152)

Shirish Shah, Tracy Miller

One teacher, one mentor, one department…these can make a difference in the success of anyone learning difficult material. This chapter highlights formal academic settings and workplace situations, explaining what one teacher, one...

Chapter 8

Assessing Diversity Issues in Instructional Technology: Strategies that Enhance Student Learning and Generate Outcomes Assessment Data (pages 153-165)

Virginia J. Anderson

Assessment is a major focus is higher education; IT faculties and departments are being asked to document quantitatively what students have learned in relation to goal-oriented expectations. Although “students will value diversity in...

Chapter 9

The Open Ended Group Project: A Way of Including Diversity in the IT Curriculum (pages 166-195)

Xristine Faulkner, Mats Daniels, Ian Newman

Modern societies are now beginning to accept that their citizens are diverse but, arguably, have not yet faced up to the challenges of diversity. Schools and universities thus have a role to play in equipping students for the diverse...

Chapter 10

Attack of the Rainbow Bots: Generating Diversity through Multi-Agent Systems (pages 196-241)

Samuel G. Collins, Goran Trajkovski

Many in IT education—following on more than twenty years of multicultural critique and theory—have integrated “diversity” into their curricula. But while this is certainly laudable, there is an irony to the course “multiculturalism”...

Chapter 11

Adaptive Technology in a Computing Curriculum (pages 242-261)

Blaise W. Liffick

This chapter describes how adaptive technology (AT) for the disabled can enhance a computing curriculum. It argues that computer professionals will naturally have an increasing role in the support of AT, as a result of economic...

Chapter 12

Tessellations: A Tool for Diversity Infusions in the Curriculum (pages 262-279)

Reza Sarhangi, Gabriele Meiselwitz, Goran Trajkovski

Introducing diversity topics in the natural, mathematical and computer sciences is a hard task, since these disciplines are traditionally labeled as “diversity-unfriendly,” due to their primary foci of study. In this chapter we...

Chapter 13

Training Faculty for Diversity Infusion in the IT Curriculum (pages 280-309)

Goran Trajkovski

In this chapter we offer a flexible training environment and strategies for diversity infusion in the Information Technology curriculum. The chapter overviews “My First Diversity Workbook,” and the ways in which it may be used in...

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